Georgian fighter Liana Jojua – the first woman to win an official MMA title in Russia – is the latest addition to the UFC’s female ranks after the 23-year-old bantamweight penned a contract with the sport's leading promotion.

Tbilisi fighter Jojua became Russia’s first-ever female professional MMA title holder when she beat Marina Mokhnatkina via majority decision to claim the inaugural Fight Nights Global bantamweight championship in Moscow in February of last year.

She’s now stepping up to join the UFC big guns, and revealed the news to her 76,000 followers on Instagram on Wednesday.

She steps into a stacked UFC women’s bantamweight division with Brazilian bruiser Amanda Nunes at its apex, but also containing the Netherlands’ Germaine de Randamie, America’s Holly Holm and Russia’s very own Yana Kunitskaya.